cybernetics

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Word Origin & History

cybernetics
coined 1948 by U.S. mathematician Norbert Wiener (1894-1964) from Gk. kybernetes "steersman," perhaps based on 1830s Fr. cybernétique "the art of governing."
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"The future offers very little hope for those who expect that our new mechanical slaves will offer us a world in which we may rest from thinking. Help us they may, but at the cost of supreme demands upon our honesty and our intelligence." [Norbert Weiner, "God and Golem, Inc.," 1964]
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Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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